Integrating Professional Work and Life: Conditions, Outcomes and Resources

Reindl, Cornelia; Kaiser, Stephan; Stolz, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_1

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“…Such integration of work and personal communications via single e‐mail account was more common among faculty compared to staff in our study. Relatively stronger identification with the professional role among faculty is one possible explanation for this finding, consistent with a report by Reindl, Kaiser and Stolz () who found greater job role identification among higher level professional employees.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…A recent study of mobile e‐mail users (Turel, Serenko & Bontis, ) found that this behavior can become addictive, increasing work‐family conflict and perceived work overload. The extension of work into personal life has been strongly linked to job type and is particularly common among managerial and professional employees (Duxbury & Smart, ), who tend to have higher degree of work‐personal life integration (Reindl, Kaiser & Stolz, ). This blurring of the work‐personal boundary for professional employees can also be linked with strong work‐role identification (Glavin & Schieman, ; Olson‐Buchanan & Boswell, ).…”

Section: Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Work and personal e‐mail use by university employees: PIM practices across domain boundaries

Capra

Khanova

Ramdeen

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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In this article, we present findings from a survey of nearly 600 university employees' e-mail use. The study provides a detailed comparison of use patterns between work and personal e-mail accounts. Our results suggest that users engage in more "keeping" behaviors with work e-mail than with personal e-mail-respondents reported more frequent use of keeping actions and larger inbox sizes for their work accounts. However, we found correlations between individual respondents' e-mail behaviors in the two contexts, indicating that personal preferences can play a role. We also report results pointing to e-mail as an important boundary management artifact. We show evidence that the use of multiple e-mail accounts may be a work-personal boundary placement strategy, but also observe that a fair amount of boundary permeation occurs through e-mail. To our knowledge, this study is one of the first to compare e-mail use in both work and personal contexts across the same sample. Our findings extend prior research on personal information management regarding e-mail use, and help inform the role of e-mail in managing work-personal boundaries. The results have implications for the design of e-mail systems, organizational e-mail policies, user training, and understanding the impacts of technology on daily life.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and personal e‐mail use by university employees: PIM practices across domain boundaries

Capra

Khanova

Ramdeen

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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“…Whereas narrow definitions describe professionals in terms of the occupation they are working in (medical practitioners, lawyers, professors, etc. ), broader definitions include advanced education and training, expertise and specialisation, high professional and organizational commitment, and high status in the organization as key features of professional work (Lawrence and Corwin, 2003;Reindl et al, 2011).…”

Section: Professional Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work–Family Interface of Service Sector Workers. A Comparison of Work Resources and Professional Status across Five European Countries

Beham¹,

Drobnič²,

Präg³

2019

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The present paper examines cross-national differences in the use of work–family resources at the organizational level and the relationships between these resources and work-to-home interference (WHI) and satisfaction with work–family balance (SWFB) among professional and non-professional service sector employees in five Western European countries. Further, it explores cross-national variations in the gap between professionals and non-professionals with respect to both outcome variables. Professional service sector employees were consistently found to experience higher levels of WHI and lower levels of SWFB. The use of organizational work–family resources differed across welfare state regimes and levels of national gender equality. It was highest in Sweden and The Netherlands and lowest in Portugal. A family-supportive supervisor and a family-supportive organizational culture differentially affected WHI of professional and non-professional workers, with a family-supportive supervisor being more beneficial to non-professionals and a family-supportive organizational culture being more beneficial to professional employees. Finally, the gap between professionals and non-professionals was also found to vary across countries for WHI but not for SWFB. It was significantly larger in the United Kingdom and in Sweden than in the other three countries.

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“…Because of these beneficial psychosocial and material conditions, professionals are often thought of as a privileged group in sociological research (Schieman et al, 2006). However, these advantages frequently come at the expense of long working hours (a frequent precondition for career advancement), high levels of availability and mobility, and work pressure (Reindl et al, 2011). Professional work is fluid and highly flexible (often in terms of both time and location) and thus prone to more frequent work-family role blurring (Lawrence & Corwin, 2003;Milliken & Dunn-Jensen, 2005;Schieman & Glavin, 2011).…”

Section: Professional Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work–Family Interface of Service Sector Workers: A Comparison of Work Resources and Professional Status across Five European Countries

2013

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The present paper examines cross‐national differences in the utilisation of work–family resources at the organisational level and the relationships between these resources and work‐to‐home interference (WHI) and satisfaction with work–family balance (SWFB) among professional and non‐professional service sector employees in five Western European countries. Further, it explores cross‐national variations in the gap between professionals and non‐professionals with respect to both outcome variables. Professional service sector employees were consistently found to experience higher levels of WHI and lower levels of SWFB. The use of organisational work–family resources differed across welfare state regimes and levels of national gender equality. It was highest in Sweden and the Netherlands and lowest in Portugal. A family‐supportive supervisor and a family‐supportive organisational culture differentially affected WHI of professional and non‐professional workers, with a family‐supportive supervisor being more beneficial to non‐professionals and a family‐supportive organisational culture being more beneficial to professional employees. Finally, the gap between professionals and non‐professionals was also found to vary across countries for WHI but not for SWFB. It was significantly larger in the UK and in Sweden than in the other three countries.

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Integrating Professional Work and Life: Conditions, Outcomes and Resources

Cited by 14 publications

References 93 publications

Work and personal e‐mail use by university employees: PIM practices across domain boundaries

Work and personal e‐mail use by university employees: PIM practices across domain boundaries

The Work–Family Interface of Service Sector Workers. A Comparison of Work Resources and Professional Status across Five European Countries

The Work–Family Interface of Service Sector Workers: A Comparison of Work Resources and Professional Status across Five European Countries

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